[CentOS] Re: settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

"nate" <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote:

>>
If your in RAID 0 then any disk failure will result in total data
loss.
<<

Just to emphasize the point you were subtly making there: with two drives
in RAID 0 configuration, you are twice as likely to have a drive failure,
and since data is striped across both drives, you are twice as likely to
lose data. It's not only "zero data protection", it's even worse than that.
. .

Best,

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